Formal Tenses

Korean 101 with J.Lee

I realized that my conjugations and tenses were all informal! What if you wanted to say this to an adult or someone older? Well here's the trick to making the sentence formal.

 

A. Present tense

1. Just add ~요

Ex. 하다, 만나다, 먹다, 마시다, 기달리다

해요-I do
만나요-I meet
먹어요-I eat
마셔요-I drink
기달려요-I wait

B. Past tense

1. Use ~어요
Ex. 하다, 만나다, 먹다, 걷다, 마시다, 기달리다
했어요-I did it.
만났어요-I met [someone]
먹었어요-I ate
걸었어요-I walked
마셨어요-I drank
기달렸어요-I waited.

As you can see, up to the ~어요, everything is the same. Just drop the 다 or 어 in the previous chapter and add ~어요 and it will be formal.

C. Future Tense

1. Use ~겠습니다 Same thing as the future tense from the previous chapter but get rid of the ㄹ bottom consonant from the word before.
Ex. 하다, 만나다, 먹다, 걷다, 마시다, 기달리다
하겠습니다-I will do it
만나겠습니다-I will meet [someone]
먹겠습니다-I will eat
걷겠습니다-I will walk
마시겠습니다-I will drink
기다리겠습니다-I will wait

2. Use ~게요 or ~을 거에요. You can keep the ㄹ bottom consonant for this one.
~게요 is for the words that need a ㄹ bottom consonant added.
~을 거에요 is for words that already have a bottom consonant.
Ex. 하다, 만나다, 먹다, 걷다, 마시다, 기달리다
할게요-I will do it
만날게요-I will meet [someone]
먹을거에요-I will eat
걸을거에요-I will walk
마실거에요-I will drink
기달릴거에요-I will wait.

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BTSARMY2001 #1
Also, my real name is 시엘라 (Sierra).
BTSARMY2001 #2
안녕하세요! 저는 킴용인 여! Did I spell it correctly? I couldn't remember if I needed to use ㄱ or ㅋ for Kim. I'm learning how to read, spell, and say simple phrases in Korean from my sister who is taking Korean classes in college.
xui-jin #3
my korean paper got an B and i still really upset about it. when i found and open this, why i didnt discovered it much earlier? . now my regrets get more deeper. TT...
teacher, would you update more often?, i sorry for the pressure. but this is really help my understand knowledge especially how to pronouns the correct tone, how to write it back , etc,
and my problem, i still cannot differentiate the under double consonant how to pronouns it. like 나는오고있다.
있지 않다. ( just auto translate) i don't even know if this a correct words.
eheriza93
#4
Chapter 31: This is pretty good! It's pretty easy to understand.선생님 감사합니다~! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
=)
eheriza93
#5
안녕하세요. 저늠 최혜경입니다. ㅇㅅㅇ
I would like to be a student!
Also, I used the generator, so please tell me if the name sounds weird for you. =)
(I can just use my nickname if you're uncomfortable with it.)
soominiecraze #6
안녕하세요. 저는 오수민입니다. I would like to be a student.
taemeilin_
#7
Chapter 29: Maybe its a boring topic but I'd like to learn business terms. Like words you'd use around your work place. And maybe formal school terms. For example, assignment, task, deadline etc.
wlstjffls
#8
I just realized that I haven't subscribed to this story lmfao
yamitan7 #9
Chapter 29: Sorry about being so quiet >< I'm usually quite inactive in actual lessons too T T
Hmm... I've been wondering for a while but how about slipping a quiz every 2 or 3 lessons? That way, you'll get to know how our Korean is coming along and we get to put our Korean to the test xD
eoeoandstuff
#10
안녕하세요! I'd love to be a student here!
저는 이은지 입니다!